Bill Pratt | December 18, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt The heretical German Christians, in 1933, galvanized Dietrich Bonhoeffer and another German pastor, Martin Niemoller, into action. They produced a statement that spelled out their grievances with the German Christians. The statement contained the following four points: First, it declared that its signers would rededicate themselves to the Scriptures and to [...]
Bill Pratt | December 9, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most important historical facts about the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer was his reaction to the Nazi take-over of the Lutheran state church in Germany in the 1930′s. Eric Metaxas, in his magnificent biography of Bonhoeffer, devotes an entire chapter to Nazi theology. The program developed by the Nazis to [...]
Bill Pratt | December 7, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Well, yes, of course, but that’s not the view of all pastors who call themselves Christian. I just finished Eric Metaxas’ brilliant biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and I was struck by Bonhoeffer’s view of the liberal churches in Manhattan during the early 1930′s. In a fascinating season of Bonhoeffer’s life, he visited New [...]
